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A plain explanation of the whole Revelation of Saint John Very necessary and comfortable…A plaine explanation of the vvhole Revelation of Saint John Very necessary and comfortable…
A plain explanation of the whole Revelation of Saint John Very necessary and comfortable in these days of trouble and affliction in the church. Penned by a faithful preacher, now with God, for more private use, and now published for the further benefit of the people of God.A plaine explanation of the vvhole Revelation of Saint John Very necessary and comfortable in these dayes of trouble and affliction in the church. Penned by a faithfull preacher, now with God, for more priuate vse, and now published for the further benefit of the people of God.
London: printed by T.S. for Nathaniel Newbery, 1622
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Apoc. Cap. 20. 1. And I saw an Angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand, &c.
Apoc. Cap. 20. 1. And I saw an Angell come downe from heauen, hauing the key of the bottomlesse pit, and a great chaine in his hand, &c.
IN this Chapter, there is set forth unto us, two victories that God and our Saviour Christ have against the Dragon, the first and the last. Then is set forth the latter judgement that shall be in the day of the Lord, the great day, the day as it were of the great assize. That which is contained in the first part of the Chapter, is somewhat displaced, belonging to the end of the twelfth Chapter, but reserved to this place, that there might be a better declaration of the story of the Dragon. To the better understanding of this, we are to remember that which was before in the 12. Chapter, where it is said, that the Dragon persecuted the Woman: which noteth (as we have heard) that great persecution which befell the Church of the Jews, that ancient Church of God. For when as the Dragon saw that he was cast from heaven, and that the woman had wings given her to fly from him into the Wilderness, and now he could not have his will against her; he after that, rageth exceedingly against the seed of the woman, to wit, the Catholic Church of the Gentiles, for the Church of the Gentiles being begotten by the preaching and doctrine of the Apostles, are called their seed. And hereupon it is said, that he is fain to be bound, after that he began thus to rage, which was about six and thirty years after Christ, being the time that Jerusalem ⟨p. 121⟩was overthrown, about that time was the Devil taken, for having pursued the Church of the Jews, and having set himself fiercely against the Church of the Gentiles, God even then seizes upon him by an elect Angel; for the good Angels of light are not only so strong as he by creation, but also by the power of God, commanding them to do it, they are made able to deal with the Devil, to chain him, and to do with him whatsoever it pleaseth the Lord to enjoin them.